Article: Backlash grows to silicon sprawl in high-tech's citadel: A county and town sue to halt building of a 50,000-person office- park 'city.'.(USA)

It's always been difficult to know where Silicon Valley starts, or ends.

Traveling south to Coyote Valley, though, a passage occurs. Suburban tract developments and sprawling office parks suddenly give way to rolling hills of brown grass and oak trees.

Here, high technology gives way to the American West.

But with bulldozers revving up, this reminder of what all of Silicon Valley used to look like is about to disappear.

Cisco Systems, a maker of Internet hardware and - for a period earlier this year - the world's wealthiest corporation, is planning an office development so large it will create a small town of 50,000 people.

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